White Elephant Party at Hornet's!
Hornet
Date: December 17th
Time : 4pm - when ever
Location: Hornet's Den (ask me for the address)
What to bring: One (1) wrapped gift), munchies or drinks to share,
booze for Lager too!
Crash space available, but must bring your own blanket and pillow,
house is full for the holidays and no spare beds are available. Only 2
old mattresses.
THE GIFTS:
1. The gift should cost NO more than $10.00
2. The gift should be something someone would actually want or use. It
should be in new or good condition.
3. The gift should be wrapped or in an envelope before arriving to the
party. Gift bags are OK ONLY if a wrapped item is inside.
4. Gift certificates are OK only if it is accompanied by some other
item as part of the gift. For instance, a Starbucks gift certificate,
by itself, is NOT ok, but a Starbucks gift certificate together with a
coffee mug is OK.
5. Do not let others know what gift you brought
THE GAME:
1. Each guest who wishes to participate must contribute a gift.
Everyone sits or stands in roughly a circle around the pile of gifts.
2. Prepare slips of paper equal to the number of gifts with clearly
written numbers. Be sure to distinguish 6 from 9, 1 from 7. Each
participating guest draws a number and holds onto that slip of paper.
3. On the first turn, the guest with paper slip #1 chooses a gift,
opens it, and all admire it.
4. On the second turn, the guest with paper slip #2 gets the choice of
"stealing" any unwrapped gift (#1's) or choosing a wrapped one. If #2
steals #1's gift, then #1 must open a wrapped gift.
5. On the third turn, the guest with paper slip #3 gets the choice of
"stealing" any unwrapped gift (#1's or #2's) or choosing a wrapped
one.
The game continues based on the following:
1. If a gift is stolen from you, you can steal a gift (within limits,
described below), or open a wrapped one.
2. The turn proceeds until a wrapped gift is chosen.
3. A gift cannot be immediately stolen back from the guest who just
stole it.
4. The fourth "owner" of a gift gets to keep it. The gift is "dead"
after it has been stolen three times.
5. "Owners" of "live" gifts must keep them visible and hold them up
when requested.
6. The gift exchange ends when the last wrapped gift is opened.
Usually, guests are encouraged to perpetuate the gift stealing as long
as there are "live" gifts, but no one is obligated to do this.